Container bottom or end wall structure



SePt- 12, 1933. w. F. NEwHoUsE 1,926,784

CONTAINER BOTTOM OR END WALL STRUCTURE Filed Sept. 15, 1930 I l r A Qfizverfwm Ja/fer Zea/awe the staves are made.

Patented Sept. l2, 1933 f A y 1,926,784

CONTAINER BOTTOM OR END WALL STRUCTURE Walter F. Newhouse, Benton Harbor, Mich.

Application September 15, 1930 kSerial No. 481,917

8 Claims.

This invention relates to receptacles or containers, and more particularly to those thatA are stapled together, and more especially to barrels.

Generally stated, the object of the invention is 5 to provide a novel and improved construction and arrangement whereby a head or bottom orv end wall` of the barrel, or other container, is held in place by staples inserted in the plane of such head or wall, through the sides of the Acontainer into lo the edge portions of the said head or wall, and whereby inner and outer hoops and other staples cooperate to iorrn a rim construction serving to hold said head or wall in place.

It is also an object to provide certain details l5 and features of construction and combinationsy Y 25 invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a portion of the rim construction of said container;

Fig. 3 is a detail section on line 3 3 in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

330 As thus illustrated, the invention comprises barrel staves 1 arranged in bilge barrel form and held in place by .outside end hoops 2 and middle hoops 3, as shown. Inside end hoops 4 are also provided, and the outside and inside end hoops are fastened together and to the staves by the staples 5 inserted obliquely, as shown, whereby these staples are more or less crosswise of the grain of the wood from which the hoops are made, as well as the grain of the wood from which The inside hoops 4 are narrower than the hoops 2, thus providing inside shoulders 6, as shown.

The barrel is provided with heads or end walls or bottoms 7,l consisting of boards of suitable thickness, the circular edges of these heads or walls abutting against the inner surfaces of the staves 1, and the said heads or Walls resting against the shoulders 6, provided by the inside hoops 4 at each end of the barrel. Larger and 00 longer staples 8 are inserted through the hoops 2 and through the staves 1 into the edge portions of the heads or walls '7, these staples being disposed in the planes of said heads or walls, whereby said staples are inserted crosswise of the grain of the wood from which the staves 1 are made, and are anchored firmly in the wood or other material frornwhich the heads or walls '7 are made. The combination of the staples 5 and 8 with the two hoops forms a strong rim construction to hold the heads or walls 7 in place. 60.

The staples 9 are inserted obliquely through the hoops 3, and the staves l to hold these hoops in place, and these staples can be clinched on the inner sides of the staves; but it will be seen that the staples 5 are clinched on the inner exposed 65 sides of theA hoops 4, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of thedrawing. d

There are different ways in which the barrel can be put together. The staves and all the hoops can be rst fastened together. One head or end wall can then be placed in position and the staples 8 can be driven to hold such head or end wall in place. The barrel can then be lilled, and the other head or end wall, being composed of a plurality of sections, as shown at the top of Fig. l, can then be slipped in place, or forced edgewise into place, and the staples 8 for this final head or cover can then be driven. Or the hoops at one end of the barrel can be left 01T, the barrel can be iilled, and these hoops and the head or cover can then be fastened in place, in the manner shown.

It will be seen that the staples 8 are located in staggered relation to the staples 5, as shown in Figs. l and 2 of the drawing, which may facilitate 85 driving these staples by machinery. The heads of the staples 8 are parallel with the edges of the Vhoop 2, while the heads of the staples 5 are oblique vFor the bottom of the barrel, the staples 8 are conveniently driven after the hoop 4 and the staples 5 are applied to the barrel. In this way, the hoop 4 serves as a liner to position the head 7, 95 during the time that the staples 8 are being driven or inserted. For the top of the barrel, after the barrel is filled, the head 7, if made in two or more pieces, as shown in Fig. 1, can be slipped into place after the hoop 4 is secured in place, 100 and the staples 8 can then be driven, and, in this way, the top hoop 4 will serve as a linerfor the head 'l while the staples 8 are being driven. Or, for the top of the barrel, after the barrel is filled, the head 7 can be placed upon the top of the contents, and the hoop 4 can then be inserted downwardly against the head '7, and the staples 5 can then be driven, and thereafter the staples 8 may be inserted.

The head 7 is of a size to pass from one end of 110 the barrel to the other, so that the staples 8 are all that prevent inward displacement of the head, except the contents of the barrel.

What I claim as my invention is:

l. A container comprising side walls formed of barrel staves, inner and outer hoops forming a rim along the edges of said walls, the inner hoop being narrower than the outer hoop, staples inserted through the hoops and end walls to hold them together, a head or bottom or end wall having its edges abutting against the inner surfaces of the side walls, of a size to pass from one end of the container to the other, held against displacement outwardly by said inner hoop, so that said end wall and said staples are in parallel planes, and other staples disposed in one of said parallel planes and driven through the outer hoop and the side Walls into said head or bottom or end wall, whereby said last-mentioned staples are necessarily inserted into said end wall before said inside hoop and nist-mentioned staples are applied to the container.

2. A structure as specified in claim 1, said rstmentioned staples being driven obliquely, and said last-mentioned staples being disposed with their heads in the plane of said end wall.

3. A structure as speciiied in claim 1, said side Walls being the staves of a barrel having other outside hoops cooperating with said -iirst-mentioned hoops to hold said staves in blge barrel form.

4. A structure as specied in claim 1, said container being a barrel having said hoop and head or end wall construction duplicated at both ends thereof.

5. In a container, an -inside hoop extending around the inside of the annular edge or rim of the container, a head or end wall bearing against the inner edge of said hoop, of a size to pass from one end of` the container to the other, one set of staples driven through the sides of the container into said head or end wall, thereby to hold the head o1' end wall firmly against said inner edge of thehoop, and another set of staples thereafter driven through the sides and into said hoop, each set of staples co-operating with the other set to maintain said head or end wall in place.

6. A structure as specified in claim 5, comprising an outside hoop held in place by both sets of staples.

7. A structure as specied in claim 5, comprising awood hoop encircling the container, having said first mentioned staples disposed with their outer ends extending substantially parallel with the adjacent edge of said outside hoop, and having said last mentioned staples disposed with their outer ends oblique to the other edge of said outside hoop.

8. A structure as specified in claim 5, said head or end Wall comprising a plurality of separate pieces, whereby the head or end Wall may be inserted in place either before or after said hoop is secured in place. l

WALTER F. NEWHOUSE. 

